A group of Chinese-speaking pro-democracy activists sued search giant Baidu, demanding $16 million in damages for allegedly excluding their publications from search results. Their argument was simple: Baidu is infringing upon civil liberties with its...

An appeals court ordered Google to remove all copies of the infamous "Innocence of Muslims" from YouTube, a shoddy anti-Islamic video that spurred widespread protests in 2012. The court opinion was issued on Wednesday. The ruling, which issues a temp...

Clicking "Like" on a Facebook post or page is now a form of speech protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, according to an opinion issued on Wednesday by a federal appeals court, which overturned a previous ruling to the contrary. The d...

Comcast has threatened to sue technology blog TorrentFreak for copyright infringement over the site's reporting of a case involving Prenda Law, an infamous copyright troll law firm. Through a brand protection company called Cyveillance, Comcast sent ...

Banning sex offenders from using social media networks like Facebook is unconstitutional, according to a federal court. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago struck down an Indiana law passed in 2008 that prohibited certain sex offenders f...

Should schools be allowed to censor students who create fake social media profiles that defame other classmates or authority figures? It's a tricky legal question, and one that still awaits final clarification after the United States Supreme Court de...

Icelandic Parliament Member Birgitta Jonsdottir said she will make an announcement this Friday about her fight with the United States Department of Justice that requested her Twitter account information for its investigation into WikiLeaks and Julian...

GoDaddy is one of more than a hundred companies catching flak online for supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Many website operators have threatened to move their domains away from GoDaddy, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has said SOPA-...

A federal judge dismissed a case of cyberstalking on Twitter ruling that even though some tweets caused emotional stress, they are still considered free speech. The case involved Alyce Zeoli, a Buddhist leader based in Maryland. Zeoli aroused the ire...

Members of Westboro Baptist Church, known for protesting at funerals of fallen U.S. service men and women, might be facing a hacked website soon. The group of controversial protesters from Kansas, which responded to last month's shooting rampage in T...

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